REFLECTIONS ON FLOGGING - AN ESSAY - REVIEW OF THE WORK OF LESLIE WILKINS AND TOM MURTON

• NCJ Number: 6177
• Journal: ISSUES IN CRIMINOLOGY Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Dated: (SUMMER 1971) Pages: 95-112
• Author(s): R KORN
• Date Published: 1971
• Length: 18 pages
• Corporate Author: University of California, Berkeley
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

COMPARISON OF THE METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS REACHED BY WILKINS, WHO IS PRO-CORPORAL PUNISHMENT FOR PRISONERS. AND MURTON, WHO IS AGAINST IT.

Abstract

WILKINS BELIEVES THAT MORAL JUDGMENT MUST BE SUSPENDED UNTIL SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION CAN DETERMINE WHETHER THE MEANS - FLOGGING - JUSTIFIES THE END - REHABILITATION. MURTON, WITH HIS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE AT THE ARKANSAS PRISON FARMS, BELIEVES THAT ALL FORMS OF ABUSE ARE INTRINSICALLY WRONG.